[Closed] Hibernian FC

You can go lower than that surely. How about Stenhousemuir or cowdenbeath etc.

Do you like cabbages?

Sectarianism? Having said that they are my team as much as I have one and not as bad as some.

They're every bit as bad as the two in Glasgow TJ.

Dumbarton football club will fulfill all your disappointment needs. I assure you.

Can you escape sectarianism in Scotland? I was astonished how it subtly weedled into so many things.

Joshvegas yes I could, been to Montrose’s ground, must be brutal playing there in a winter gale, Brechin City is not a city 😂

They can be your Scottish team Piggie. They’re “mine” but really, it’s because of the song. I’m eagerly awaiting the restart of the Chilean league so I can keep up with how Huachipato FC are doing. 😂

Yep this alone is good enough reason
Scottish Cup Final 2016

Is it a requirement to have a Scottish team?

I don't have one even though I can see Fir Park out of my window.

'Mon the Mighty Dossers fae the Shire!*

* Don't know if i'm doing this right. It's my first time.

DD that’s sealed it then, cheers x x

Brechin City is not a city 😂

That's my Scottish team, other half is from there.

Surely its got to be Fort William FC on here?

Stirling Albion

For me because it was the first team I watched on a regular basis , due to livng in Dunblane from late 1969 to May 1972 ( I had been to Elland Road a couple of time prior and they are my main team , M O T )

2 reasons it should be yours

1/ They are now a " Fan Owned " club and the fans recently raised £30,000 to help them through the corona virus situation.
and

2/ There is a Team called the Gambinos in ( surprisingly enough ) the Gambia who sponsored by a fan and who wear old Bino kits.

Plus

They will never .... ever amount to much and as such any success will be a very pleasant surprise

perchypanther
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Is it a requirement to have a Scottish team?

Yes, that’s why I follow the mighty Lochgelly United FC. Going through a bit of a lean patch at the moment but Come on the Happylanders!

OP: Edinburgh City.

FatOldGit - agree completely.

C'mon the Binos!!!

(Many happy memories of watching the Binos in recent years as my sons "worked" as ball boys. Have never forgiven Chris Smith for signing my youngest's goalkeeping gloves: they immediately got retired to the shelf of honour and I had to buy him a new pair.
H still plays for the Young Reds - he's the enforcer in the centre of defence for the 2008s.)

Go for my team, Alloa. Best part time team in Scotland. Always full of squeaky bum times trying to avoid relegation from championship. We finished third bottom last year....our best ever and avoided the usual relegation playoff.

I am a life long football fan (Hull City). I have supported the same team all my life after my dad took me to my first game aged 2 or 3. When living in different parts of the country or through other family I have picked up a number of teams that I always check the scores (Carlisle Utd, Villa, Wrexham, Morecambe, Berwick Rangers). All apart from Berwick have been my local team at some point and I went to games when I could. A trip to see Hull would always have been a preference. As a result I don't understand how people can just pick a team that they don't have a link to the area or club.

If you are wanting a Scottish team then pick a random lower league team or somewhere you have been on holiday. The SPL is dull with not much to play for unless you follow Celtic. The lower league teams have some interesting results throughout the season and if you are ever in the area the welcome at a small club is always better.

I'd opt for one of the newer teams, those who've recently appeared on the scene and are still fighting their way to glory. Rangers maybe?

cowdenbeath

'mon the coo's.

I've a brother in law who travels up for every home game they play.

From Nottingham.

🤔

They are mine. Majority of my family are from Edinburgh and Bo'ness and supported Hibs. I was born in Bolton so Bolton and Hibernian for me, both equally gash, Bolton more so.
Have been to 10 Hibs games and two Edinburgh derby games which was ace, last one not so much as we got pumped 😡

Never understood having a team from another country, I'd rather go watch the juniors than the EPL tbh.

I’d rather go watch the juniors

Eeka peeka pukka po!

Based in Faslane and Rosyth in the 90's meant catching a lot of games with mates.

Some of the best football memories I have came standing on the terraces at Cappielow, Partick Thistle or at Falkirk.

I once saw Dean Windass score 4 goals in extra time for Aberdeen against Morton in a midweek cup tie every one a worldy. Morton had pegged the big boys back to 3-3 in normal time. The atmosphere in the cow shed was fantastic.

If you go hibees it'll make you and I mortal enemies.

Well, I'm genetically a Hearts fan but Scottish football's shite so I can't really be bothered. I do like watching the insane Hearts rollercoaster ride though, there's always something fun happening.

Never understood having a team from another country

You just don’t really understand sport then.

Friend of mine is a big Hibees fan. So much so that when his son was on University Challenge (last season I think) he wore a Hibs sweatshirt in the audience and got name checked in all the fanzines. Must have worked as they won with his lad getting the winning question.

If you go hibees it’ll make you and I mortal enemies.

I can live with that 😂

Bizarre how touchy some people are, STW is a broad church.

Got the shirt, proud member of the Hibee family.

Eeka peeka pukka po!

You ever heard the story of how that started Perchy? 🙈

Behave yourself DD 😋

Joshvegas yes I could, been to Montrose’s ground, must be brutal playing there in a winter gale,

Screw you Mister!

Ducky what did I say? 🤔🤔

Nobeer why can’t you support a team from another country?

More the feeling of needing to have a Scottish team, I never said you couldn't, merely that I find it odd.

I even have a Chilean team now.

You ever heard the story of how that started Perchy?

From what I hear, the people in the story didn't hear how it started either. 🙂

😆

I once saw Dean Windass score 4 goals in extra time for Aberdeen against Morton in a midweek cup tie every one a worldy. Morton had pegged the big boys back to 3-3 in normal time. The atmosphere in the cow shed was fantastic.

I was at that game too. Rotten result (guess who I support) but an amazing match. I think Aberdeen were leading 0-2 with about twenty minutes of normal time left. Morton got three quick goals to go 3-2 ahead and an amazing comeback was on the cards. Then Aberdeen equalised in the 90th minute (a penalty I think) then ran riot in extra-time as Morton tired. Finished 3-7.

I once saw Dean Windass score 4 goals in extra time

Not one of my favourite footballers, he scored the goal that stopped Bristol City getting into the premiership. Ruined my day out at Wembley.

Aberdeen are my team but I wouldn't recommend them to anyone, the fans are never happy. We did win something last year though, an award for their community work. I reckon if I supported another team I might go with Arbroath as that's where my grandparents were from. Or Motherwell, I reckon their fans are easily pleased and I think in recent years they've been everywhere from 2nd top to 2nd bottom, they humped some diddy team called Rangers/Sevco in the play offs to stay up. So never a dull moment with them, I also remember hearing that in the holidays they feed kids that get free school meals. I'd like to think that was quite common but I just remember hearing about Motherwell doing it.

guess who I support

Morton is clearly the choice of any right thinking person, and so far as I have a team, they are it.

DOI grew up near the Watt College.

Away the nock.

Do you like cabbages?

And getting caught in the rain?

That Morton Aberdeen game will stick long in my memory, think it was Billy Dodds who scored a hat trick for the Dons. The singing from the fans was brutal. The Morton fans mentioned more than once the inter relationship with sheep and lack of a father in a particular tune that lasted something like 120mins.

Sorry it’s Arbroath whose ground is right by the sea.

Sorry it’s Arbroath whose ground is right by the sea.

And Inverness

Dumbarton also have a watery view

Pigface

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Joshvegas yes I could, been to Montrose’s ground, must be brutal playing there in a winter gale, Brechin City is not a city 😂

Went to see Montrose years ago with a few mates - 168 in the crowd against Queens Park, I think?
Guy on the turnstiles let us pop out to the social club for a few pints at half time. 🙂 It was ace.

The visiting goalie was called Gary and we heckled him unmercifully for the entire second half, man was he pissed off.

Bloody marvelous.

So yeah, Montrose. Still got a scarf somewhere....🙂

I remember watching a linesman at Falkirk run up and down for 35 mins with steak pie bits all over his back for flagging a Partick goal as offside, boy he got shit for the rest of the game. He was about 3 feet from the fans in the stand.

Whilst quality might have been questionable the day out was always fun. That was enough for me

Sorry it’s Arbroath whose ground is right by the sea

Cappielow might as well be (possibly apocryphal rumour had it that they couldn’t fit under soil heating as it flooded at high tide when it was raining).

East Fife too. Bayview Stadium.

Morton is clearly the choice of any right thinking person, and so far as I have a team, they are it.

DOI grew up near the Watt College.

Well said that man!

Cappielow might as well be (possibly apocryphal rumour had it that they couldn’t fit under soil heating as it flooded at high tide when it was raining).

Sadly yes it is apocryphal but still a good story (and quite plausible given the climate over there) so what the hell, let's call it true!

Fun Morton fact. Cappielow is one of the very few remaining stadiums that still has a wooden main stand.

Second fun fact about Morton Gourock boy scored against them on the day their local rivals were presented with the championship trophy 😜

Pacer, who and when was that? And answer without mentioning the unmentionables!!!

Pigface
Member
Any reason not to pick Hibs as my Scottish team,

"Hibs'd it" is a thing. 😆 Consider your choice carefully.

Lewis Morgan April 2018, by then a Celtic player loaned back to St Mirren then followed Jack Ross, now Hibs manager, to Sunderland on loan. Thankfully I got the relevance back to hibs

Nobeerinthefridge
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Never understood having a team from another country, I’d rather go watch the juniors than the EPL tbh.

Me too, been to a few, good laugh. Though the juniors isn't really a thing anymore, they've all resigned and joined the league en masse, so fully integrated into the pyramid when things start back up. Tempted to pick a team at that level myself and take a passing interest, see how it develops.

Think the junior cup with remain a thing.

Great to see so many fellow Links Park DynaMO fans!

Went to see Montrose years ago with a few mates – 168 in the crowd against Queens Park, I think?

One of my friends from uni followed Dumbarton. During their famed run of being bottom of three different divisions in three seasons, he reckoned he saw them away to Queen’s Park. In Hampden. With a crowd of about 150.

Think the junior cup with remain a thing.

Aye, aw the Ayrshire teams have bizarrely chosen to stay junior, i think they just want to keep it to themselves, basically guaranteeing the the Talbot will win the junior cup every year 😆

We're doing this wrong.

Close down all the football grounds, all games to be played on waste ground with no policing or referees. Then it would be proper fitba. There may be the odd riot...

Now why would this be a good idea?

Just think of all those lovingly maintained grass pitches going to waste now, but we have a solution.

Yes, they would make lovely grass velodromes for the re-introduction of grass track racing. The bookies will love it. 🙂

Otherwise support Ross County, decent lads.

Scotland has football teams?

Yes, and they used to be pretty good. First British winners of the European Cup, but you’ll know that already. Top English sides were packed with Scots in the past.

Marin
Scotland has football teams?

Only above the Highland line.*

Below that it has sectarian bigot clubs who hate each other because of what happened in Ireland 300 years ago. They use football as an excuse. They are a pox on Scotland.

*Asterix denotes TIC.

Any reason not to pick Hibs as my Scottish team

The Proclaimers aren't enough?

Fling in a bit of bigotry for good measure.

Aye, aw the Ayrshire teams have bizarrely chosen to stay junior

Largs never, we'll see how long that lasts.

epicyclo
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Below that it has sectarian bigot clubs who hate each other because of what happened in Ireland 300 years ago. They use football as an excuse. They are a pox on Scotland.

Gies peace ya gimp. Notice how it's only youse that aren't really interested in fitba bringing it up and ruining the thread.....

I also nearly spat out my cornflakes at the suggestion here that captain oppressed thinks it's odd that people identify with a bit of history. FFS, a bit of self awarness puuuulleeezze! 😆

Also, yer derision of everything below the highland boundary is basically a sectarian comment btw. 😆

Celtic/The Rangers - two cheeks of the same arse.

Hibs/Hearts - diet versions of the same thing.

Oh, and Hibs always Hibs it!

seosamh77
Gies peace ya gimp....

Celtic or Rangers? 🙂

So what shoulder do you boys carry that chip on, left or right?

Interesting thread drift.

So what shoulder do you boys carry that chip on, left or right?

Depends, whit school did ye go tae?

Anyway, I still think the Proclaimers thing is less forgivable than any bigotry, at least the latter has the excuse of having been ingrained for generations beforehand.

I moved to Scotland 20 years ago and despite being fairly into my football i have never been able to get that link with a club , been to a few Saint Mirren games and a couple of thistle games .

Got two young boys now and in nearly everything i hope to let them choose their own paths but no chance they are supporting the old firm , along with all the bigotry i just dont see how being a Celtic fan can be fun at the moment , there is no jeopardy . you turn up every week and if you dont win 3 nil your disappointed .

From what i see from the guys at work the Killmarnock   fans seem to have the most fun with it .

Never knew that about Largs SK.

Oh, I love the proclaimers btw, phenomenal songwriters.

moonsaballoon
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From what i see from the guys at work the Killmarnock fans seem to have the most fun with it .

What, all 3 or them? 😆 Magine it's a hoot.

Aye, the highbury library has nothing on Rugby park!

Nobeerinthefridge
Member
Aye, the highbury library

😆

Oh, I love the proclaimers btw, phenomenal songwriters.

My condolences. You do know absence of taste is a cornoa symptom?

😉

Lol! You couldnae spell corona 😂